What is it about being emotional that makes men feel like the bigget girl ever, in the history of ever. I slept in this morning (until 8:30) and got out of bed. After turning on the TV and fighting the temptation to beat the next temple in Zelda: Twilight Princess, my channel surfing lead me to this infomercial about children with cancer.
This mother was on camera talking about her 3 year old son, who had some sort of cancer that had attached itself to one of his ribs.
Well, here I am, a heaping blob of grogginess and morningmouth, and all of a sudden I am overcome by this kid with cancer, and I sit there on the couch weeping for about 15 minutes.
I felt like such a girl, but at the same time, I don't want to lose that compassion. Every time Jesus felt compassion, people got healed.
I don't know the connection between His compassion and the power exhibited, but the connection seems evident in scripture.
I just finished Bill Johnson's book "When Heaven Invades the Earth" and I have to say that I have a new appreciation of the supernatural being an active and integral expression of God's nature. Jesus was not just confident in His ability to heal people, it was His nature to feel compassion and heal those on whom He had compassion. If what He felt was anything like what I felt when I saw these bald kids with cancer on TV, I don't believe He could deny the power to heal those people.
Lord, help me tap into this connection between compassion and Your power to heal. I don't want to heal just to heal, but to see people transformed by Your glory and power, however it shows up, as healing, joy, tongues, whatever.
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